7:49 pm. Holasova CZE BB: Layout stepout mount, nice, then a solid bhs loso loso! Excellent. Clean front aerial to split jump, switch leap to split leap to straddle jump, so good. Switch ring, low back leg and a wobble. Full Y turn, break at the hips and a fall. 😦 High double tuck with a step. Too bad about that fall, she was looking SO good!

Wu TPE VT: Tsuk full, gets like NO block, thought she was going to land it ON the table.

7:44 pm. Maja GRE UB: Toe on to Maloney to Pak, toe shoot, blind change to piked Jaeger, then pauses on the high bar, can’t kip cast to handstand, does it again, finally gets it, blind full, double pike to her knees. Too bad, that was solid at the beginning. Needs some endurance training.

Hribar SLO FX: I missed the beginning, does a layout for one of her passes, she’s really downgraded right now it seems. She almost didn’t come to worlds so I’m guessing she’s coming back from injury? Layout full at the end.

Subbotina GEO BB: Off on a back tuck. Nice side aerial. Switch to switch half, a little short. Dismounts with a double tuck, stumbled back off the mat.

Xoulogi GRE VT: Handspring front tuck, some leg form issues, hop.

7:26 pm. Maja GRE VT: FTY, steps back.

7:24 pm. Derek CRO BB: Stumble on the bhs loso. Came off on something after that.

Sajn SLO FX: Saw it from the 1.5. Triple pirouette right into a jump. Hit routine.

7:12 pm. Ponizilova CZE VT: Tsuk full, solid!! Just some form in the air. Second vault is a handspring front layout half, also pretty solid. Looks like she went OOB. Got -0.3 ND.

7:10 pm. Jirikova CZE VT: Sat her handspring front pike. 😦

Chuang TPE FX: Really low and forward on her double tuck. Front tuck through to layout full. 1.5 at the end. Some cutesy choreo but this looks like it’s made for a level 4 compulsory routine, poor thing.

Belak SLO BB: Just saw her front layout full dismount but think she hit this.

7:07 pm. Wu CHN FX: Double tuck, good front full at the end.

Kysselef SLO BB: Front aerial to split leap, hit the dismount.

Subbotina GEO UB: Blind change to straddle Jaeger, stalder to stalder full to Tkachev, nice, Pak is a bit messy. Stalder half, fell on the dismount.

6:46 pm. Holasova CZE FX: I had to film this routine for her mom so I wasn’t typing at this point but she killed it on EVERYTHING!!! Double arabian, gorgeous and stuck, double pike with a little step back, excellent Popa, Y turn, switch ring to tour jeté half, stuck double tuck, and clean, stuck double full. Just excellent! 12.8

Millousi GRE BB: Bhs loso, solid, side aerial, little wobble on the jump series. Full turn, double full with a hop. Yay!!! HIT.

6:43 pm. Xoulogi GRE BB: Hit her flight series, side aerial, Korbut,

6:42 pm. Belak SLO VT: Hit her Yurchenko 1.5 but then went for the handspring front layout full and sat it. 😦 😦 😦

Chuang TPE UB: I missed this one. 9.733

Jirikova CZE FX: I missed pretty much all of this.

Kysselef SLO VT: Hit her first vault well, and then goes for the Yurchenko 1.5, just a step forward. Yay!

Well, lets see if she will do the biles vt again. if not then the gap will be narrowed a bit..

Also, how about the almost 9 points gap between 1st and 2nd team compared to the 6.5 points gap between 2nd and 10th team….lol…. Tom did have to contemplate for a few hours about simone not competing…. they would still have won with using just the other 3 non simone scores on the team of 168.196, being 2nd on vt, ub, bb, and 1st fx.. well over 2 points better than next team 🙂

It’s crazy to see how using simone score account for more than half of the us lead. us would still be favored to win without simone but still…

Because they don’t have a touch warmup (at least in ef, not sure about as). Seems silly they can’t spare even five minutes for a brief touch warmup before event finals, especially if the cost is less good/more dangerous gymnastics.

4,5 points ahead – she should be banned from competing – it’s not fair there is no competition. “she destroyed the field” – there was no field – hopefully she is taking next year off after the kidney stone operation and we see some proper competition. And after 2020 Tokyo she retires and gives a chance to other gymnasts. How heart breaking to say: “I was unlucky I was born in the same era with Biles”

This isn’t fair to Simone. Just because she’s way better than anyone else doesn’t mean she doesn’t have a right to compete. Imagine if people encouraged banning the best football player or team so that other teams “have competition.” It’s a sport—may the best win. Why not, instead of thinking of this as being unfair to the other competitors, re-frame it with the reality that we get the privilege of living in a time where we get to enjoy watching the BEST gymnast of all time compete. It’s exciting and stuff like this doesn’t happen all the time.

I will enjoy watching her crazy good gymnasts, and her not so superhuman but wonderful team(Hurd fan here) but I will concur most of my excitement goes for lesser medals especially in the team and AA because that’s where the literal competition is. I don’t know how easy it would be for any country to rival the US with their depth that others just don’t, but I hope the gap lessons over time, I want stronger international teams. Without Biles though, I believe the US team would be only a few points head of second place, just shows how crazy good she is.

It is absolutely not fair to say she shouldn’t compete just because her talent for the sport is unparalleled (at least for now). I do wish that she was easier to beat, I really wouldn’t care if she managed to win every AA title as long as someone made her work for it, but that doesn’t make her presence in the sport unfair or create justifiable means to ban her. While I do wish she was able to be beaten without multiple falls/ major mistakes needing to happen, she’s still one of the best gymnasts if not the best of all time, and you can’t take that away from her.

Most kidney stones don’t require an operation (from someone who has had not one, not two, but ELEVEN. Trust me, I know). She’ll be out of action for at most a week, not a year. Gymnastics is a sport, which means may the best athlete win. No one has a right to compete without competition. Are we banning Serena Williams or Michael Phelps? No, we’re not. She is very talented, and if other gymnasts want to challenge her they need to up their game.

I absolutely agree — she should be banned! Either she made a pact with the devil or she is on some substance. In either case she is destroying gymnastics and I would hope she would be noble enough to realized this and resign.

Why are you so angry about it? She is better than the rest, She does her Biles vault better than her Amanar if you ask me. I may not be her biggest fan, but there is something wrong with you if you are that bitter about Simone dominating the field. Also, as someone who has battled kidney stones for the past ten years, you don’t need surgery, Afanseyva had Kidney Stones at last years worlds and got a Silver in TF and floor. She will take medication and get check ups. Deal with it.

Did anyone watch the Soviets and Romanians in the 90s??? Similarly, it’s team USA and Biles’ time! No different and also so wonderful for anyone that is great and can shine. Working hard for great results!!! Good for those who do great!

Is it possible to see a list of gymnasts placement including those who got 2 per countried out either from you or a link to where the results are? I would love to see where Riley placed. So bummed she didn’t make any finals.

The EF finals apart from obvious standouts were so tight in the scoring, so many 14.3’s that didn’t make bars. KInd of can’t say I’d rather see Ashaimova in tloor rather than Moors(9(th) le sigh, because who doesn’t want as much Brooklyn on floor as possible?

What I can’t stand to see is Tisha reserve in the floor , with a terrible form scoring higher than 8 in her routines. A show of flat foot and opened legs. Only landing matters in this code???She did one of the pirouettes with the support leg bend. Awfull.And the pirouettes holding a bend leg? No please can I under that? What is this freaking code doing to gymnastics? Someone like her almost getting a final ? Common. This blows my mind.